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• Event “JF-GJS Initiative: Japan Foundation Fellow Conference 2024” 2024-10-11
• Tobunken Seminar “EU-Taiwan Cooperation in a New Reality. What Lies Ahead?” 2024-10-11
• Tobunken Seminar “Migration and Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire” (Oct 18, Oct 25, Nov 1, 2024) 2024-09-27
• Asia Rising:A Handbook of History and International Relations in East, South and Southeast Asia 2024-09-01
• GAS Event “Changing China, Changing Perceptions: A Joint Workshop between NTU and UTokyo 2024” 2024-08-21
• Toiling with Tech: Human Labor, Robots and Technology in the 21. Century 2024-08-19
• GAS Joint Workshop “Immigrant workers from Global South to Japan, Taiwan and South Korea: Present situations and future challenges” 2024-07-16
• Sumitomo Conference 2024 “Japanese Studies in Asia (2): From Cultural Comparisons to Sustainable Developments アジアの日本研究（2）：文化の比較から持続的な発展へ” 2024-07-16
• Tobunken Seminar “Developments in Compensatory Practices: First Notes on Minamata and Comfort Women” by Dr. Yazid Ben Hounet, July 22 (Mon) 2024-07-04
• GAS Seminar “Contemporary Queer Studies in Korea and the Intersections of Asian Localities” 2024-07-02
• Tobuken Seminar “Commercial Courts in the Ottoman Legal Reforms: The Case of Selanik (Thessaloniki)” 2024-06-14
• Workshop on Chinese Economic History: “Early Shanghai Financial Markets and Their Implications” 2024-06-05
• The Semantics of Development in Asia : Exploring ‘Untranslatable’ Ideas Through Japan 2024-06-01
• GAS Book Talk “Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China” 2024-05-29
• Tobunken Seminar: Reconciliation and Compensation in Algeria and Morocco by Dr. Yazid Ben Hounet, June 19 (Wed) 2024-05-23
• Tobunken Seminar “Petitions and “Individuals” : First-Person Narratives and Historical Agency at Intersections of Diplomatic, Administrative, and Legal History” 2024-05-02
• Faculty member’s co-authored work featured in “UTokyo BiblioPlaza” 2024-04-30
• Tōbunken Seminar: Former Prof. Graham Parkes (University of Hawai‛i at Mānoa) Lecture: “Managing Humanity’s Insanity: Rethinking our Place in Nature through Classical Chinese Philosophy” 2024-04-15
• GAS Lecture Series #7 “Translation and the Right to Speak: The Global Turn in Contemporary Chinese Humanities” 2024-04-09
• GAS Event “How to deal with China: A Dialogue between European and Japanese experts on China” 2024-03-21
• RICAS’s Collaboration with Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT (Archnet) and Five Cross Architects 2024-03-21
• Tobuken Seminar “Commercial Courts in the Ottoman Legal Reforms: The Case of Selanik (Thessaloniki)” (Apr 4, 2024) 2024-03-17
• Tobunken Seminar: Accos. Prof. Xavier PAULES (EHESS) Lecture Series 2024-03-15
• Tobunken Seminar: Prof. Anne CHENG (Collège de France) Lecture “The Question of Despotism in the Reception of Montesquieu’s De l’Esprit des lois in Japan and China” 2024-03-15
• Tobunken Seminar “Sino-Korean Relations after Empire: Landed Property, Agricultural Labor, and Legal Rights of Koreans in Civil War-era Manchuria (1945–1948)” 2024-03-12
• Tobuken Seminar “Forged in Battle: A Comparative Examination of Boyhood Transformation in the Devşirme System” 2024-03-04
• JF-GJS Fellow Talk Series #3 “Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan’s Empire – Book Talk and Research Methods and Ethics Discussion” 2024-02-26
• Tobuken Seminar, “Role of Armenian Construction Companies in the Capitalist Urbanization of the Late Ottoman Istanbul” 2024-02-21
• Tobunken Seminar : Japonya’da Sohbet-i Osmaniye-7 2024-02-20
• Tobunken Seminar / The Islamic Trust Studies International Workshop “Petitions and “Individuals” : First-Person Narratives and Historical Agency at Intersections of Diplomatic, Administrative, and Legal History” 2024-02-19
• JF-GJS Fellow Talk Series #2 “Looking in Asia for a ‘New Wind’: Tomiyama Taeko and JAALA (Japan, Asian, African, Latin-American Artist Association)” 2024-02-09
• Global Mediterranean Workshop/Tobunken Seminar: New Perspectives on Timurid, Safavid, and Mughal Art and Culture 2024-02-09
• Tobunken Seminar : “Graduate Workshop: Al-Shaykh al-Akbar and Ustād-i Bashar: Aspects of Mystical Thoughts in Medieval Islam” 2024-02-02
• Tobunken Seminar : “Denominational Dynamics within Futuwwat Literature of the Medieval Period in Anatolia and Iran” 2024-02-02
• Tobuken Seminar: “Military Elites in the Early Modern Islamicate World and Beyond” 2024-01-30
• Tobuken Seminar : “Forged in Battle: A Comparative Examination of Boyhood Transformation in the Devşirme System” 2024-01-26
• Regime Changes and Socio-economic History of Rural Myanmar, 1986-2019 2024-01-17
• GAS Lecture #6 “Gendered Mobility of North Korean Women in the Post-Cold War Era” 2024-01-17
• Tobunken Seminar : Graduate Workshop “Al-Shaykh al-Akbar and Ustād-i Bashar: Aspects of Mystical Thoughts in Medieval Islam” 2023-12-28
• Tobunken Seminar: “Science and scripture in classical Islam: an Analysis of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani’s Treatise on the Plague” 2023-12-26
• Tobunken Seminar : “Military Elites in the Early Modern Islamicate World and Beyond” 2023-12-22
• Tobunken Seminar : Japonya’da Sohbet-i Osmaniye-7 2023-12-22
• Tobunken Seminar : “Denominational Dynamics within Futuwwat Literature of the Medieval Period in Anatolia and Iran” 2023-12-21
• Tobuken Seminar : “Role of Armenian Construction Companies in the Capitalist Urbanization of the Late Ottoman Istanbul” 2023-12-19
• GAS Lecture #5 ” Toward the Global Comparison of Revolutions “ 2023-11-20
• A workshop entitled ” Sharing the Knowledge ” was held at the University of Naples ” L’Orientale “ 2023-11-17
• Tokyo Forum 2023 to Be Held on November 30 and December 1 (joined by Prof. Jin Sato as a moderator) 2023-11-08
• Tobunken Seminar : ” Science and scripture in classical Islam: an Analysis of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani’s Treatise on the Plague “ 2023-11-07
• Prof. Yasuhiro Matsuda’s interview article “The question of Taiwan in the context of East Asian affairs” was featured on the website of the University of Tokyo’s Public Relations Office 2023-10-26
• Sumitomo Conference 2023 Was Held Online 2023-10-25
• JF-GJS Initiative: Japan Foundation Fellow Conference 2023 2023-09-05
• Sumitomo Conference 2023 “Japan Studies in Asia (1): Approaches from History and Comparative Studies” (住友コンフェレンス 2023　「アジアの日本研究(1):歴史と比較からのアプローチ」) 2023-08-31
• GAS Lecture #4 “Recognizing Poor Problem Definitions in Southeast Asian Natural-Resource Policies and Programs” 2023-08-29
• GAS Lecture with EAA “Music, Modernity and Mobility: Historiographical Strategies based on the ‘China-Europe-Japan Triangle’” 2023-08-22
• Tobunken Seminar: Reverse glass painting in Java, 19th-20th centuries. Reflecting a world in motion by Professor Jérôme Samuel, September 24 (Sun) 2023-08-22
• Special Lecture & Dialogue with Students by Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, Secretary-General of ASEAN 2023-07-14
• GAS Lecture Series “New Directions in China Studies” 2023-06-20
• Special Lecture & Dialogue with Students by Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, Secretary-General of ASEAN 2023-06-16
• JF-GJS Fellow Talk Series “All I Really Need to Know about Japan Studies I Learned at a Strange Japanese Restaurant in Texas: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things in Academia” 2023-06-16
• 【International workshop】 ”When critical urban studies meet Asian studies” 2023-06-02
• Knowledge and Power in Muslim Societies: Approaches in Intellectual History 2023-06-01
• GAS Book Talk “Japan-China Relations 2001-2022” 2023-05-31
• GAS Lecture Series 1“America’s Tsunami of Aid” by Prof. J. Charles Schencking (University of Hong Kong) 2023-05-24
• Tobunken Seminar “Brahmā and Cangjie: a Sino-Indian Philological Encounter in the Tang Dynasty” May 15（Mon) 2023-05-09
• Tobunken Seminar “The Ottoman Postal System: An Infrastructural History” 2023-04-13
• IJAS holds its first outreach workshop at Chulalongkorn University 2023-04-04
• Bayaz of the royal chancellery of Iran during the Safavid era : Draft, register and rules for preparing diplomatic correspondences (A study of Iran’s foreign relations with Europe, Ottomans, Mughals, and the Khanates of Central Asia) 2023-03-31
• The 1st GAS Joint Workshop “Exploring Asian Connectivities: Topics, Methods, and Implications” 2023-03-31
• Tobunken Seminar: “Pacific Rim Ottomanists’ Conference” 2023-03-27
• Tobunken Seminar “Japonya’da Sohbet-i Osmaniye-6” 2023-03-20
• JF-GJS Initiative “Joint Workshop among Freie Universitat Berlin, Beijing Foreign Studies University, and the University of Tokyo” 2023-03-14
• Tobunken Seminar “The Ottoman Postal System: An Infrastructural History” 2023-03-10
• Imperial Astronomical Calendar of Iran During the Safavid Era, Predictions of the Situation of Iran and its Neighbors in 1674/1085 2023-03-09
• Tobunken Seminar “Preparing Diplomatic Correspondences during the Safavid Period: A Survey of a Unique Source from Royal Archive of Iran (17th–18th Centuries)” 2023-02-27
• Tobunken Seminar “From Home to Notary: Women’s Economic Life in the Late Qajar Period” 2023-02-27
• Tobunken Seminar “Japonya’da Sohbet-i Osmaniye-6” 2023-02-27
• Tobunken Seminar: “Pacific Rim Ottomanists’ Conference” 2023-02-27
• Tobunken / UTokyo Cultural Anthropology Seminar “1, The Place for Indigenous Languages in Universities: Getting Beyond Territorial Acknowledgements/ 2, Restructuring Life: Conflict, Disaster, and Transformation in Nepal” 2023-02-20
• Tobunken(IASA)/EAA Seminar “Tōshōgū as a Source of Sacred Legitimacy: Festivals of the Gosanke in Tokugawa Japan” 2023-02-06
• CFP (Due date: 31 January, 2023) | GAS Joint Workshop with NTU Singapore (March 24, 2023 at Singapore) 2023-01-16
• Director Takahashi visited the University of Naples, L’Orientale and delivered a lecture 2022-12-05
• GAS (Global Asian Studies) website launched 2022-11-17
• JF-GJS Initiative Book Talk “Asia and Postwar Japan: Deimperialization, Civic Activism, and National Identity” 2022-11-14
• The Tobunken Seminar “Workshop Series on Ottoman History 2: Corporate bodies and status groups in the Ottoman Empire” 2022-11-08
• The Tobunken Seminar “Workshop Series on Ottoman History I: New Readings of Ottoman Sources” 2022-11-08
• Tobunken Seminar “Anjuman, Jami‘at, or Association: What Sayyid Organizations Tell Us about the Associational Life of Muslim Caste Groups” 2022-10-14
• Tobunken Seminar “Caste and Islam in South Asia: A Genealogy of Contemporary Debates” 2022-10-12
• Tobunken Seminar: “Workshop Series on Ottoman History II” 2022-10-06
• Tobunken Seminar “The Qur’an in Medieval and Modern-Age Europe: The European Qur’an (EuQu ERC-Synergy project 2019–25)” 2022-09-20
• Tobunken Seminar: “Workshop Series on Ottoman History I” 2022-09-15
• Tobunken Seminar: “Asiatic Imperial Constitutional Making – Legal Borrowings from the Ottomans by the Asiatic World” 2022-08-08
• Tobunken Seminar: “Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal” 2022-07-19
• A History of Maritime Trade in Northern Vietnam, 12th to 18th Centuries――Archaeological Investigations in Vandon and Phohien 2022-07-13
• Tobunken Seminar: “Asiatic Imperial Constitutional Making – Legal Borrowings from the Ottomans by the Asiatic World” 2022-07-08
• 1st Tobunken Staff Seminar (Academic Year 2022) “Connecting East Asia to Europe via the Caspian Sea, Caucasus and Russia: Iran`s plan to open a new Silk Road during the Safavid era (17th century)” 2022-06-27
• JF-GJS Initiatives Lecture Seires “Dialogue between Japan Studies in Asia and Asian Studies in Japan” (2) 2022-06-22
• JF-GJS Initiatives Lecture Seires “Dialogue between Japan Studies in Asia and Asian Studies in Japan” (1) 2022-06-03
• Tobunken Seminar “What’s in for Taiwan in the Context of the Russia-Ukraine War?” 2022-05-31
• Tobunken Seminar “The Zheng Regime and the Tokugawa Bakufu: Asking for the Japanese Intervention” 2022-05-26
• Signed MoU with Japan Foundation 2022-05-23
• 1st Tobunken Staff Seminar (Academic Year 2022) “Connecting East Asia to Europe via the Caspian Sea, Caucasus and Russia: Iran`s plan to open a new Silk Road during the Safavid era (17th century)” 2022-05-19
• Joint Workshop among Freie Universitat Berlin, Beijing Foreign Studies University, and the University of Tokyo 2022-05-11
• Tobunken-GJS Lecture Series “Japanese Studies in Asia” (11) 2022-02-10
• Tobunken-GJS Lecture Series “Japanese Studies in Asia” (10) 2021-12-23
• Tobunken-GJS Lecture Series “Japanese Studies in Asia” (10) 2021-12-23
• Tobunken-GJS Lecture Series “Japanese Studies in Asia” (9) 2021-12-07
• Tobunken-GJS Lecture Series “Japanese Studies in Asia” (8) 2021-11-05
• Tobunken-GJS Lecture Series “Japanese Studies in Asia” (7) 2021-10-28
• UT-IPI Online Symposium, “Publishing in English for International Audiences”, 19 November 2021 2021-10-20
• Tobunken-GJS Lecture Series “Japanese Studies in Asia” (6) 2021-10-07
• Tobunken-GJS Lecture Series “Japanese Studies in Asia” (5) 2021-09-24
• Mobilizing Japanese Youth――The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation 2021-07-07
• Tobunken-GJS Lecture Series “Japanese Studies in Asia”(4) 2021-06-18
• Tobunken-GJS Lecture Series “Japanese Studies in Asia” (3) 2021-05-21
• The 75th Tobunken-GJS Seminar “The Peril and Promise of Education: Japanese Settlers’ Schooling in Davao, the American Philippines” 2021-04-22
• The 74th Tobunken-GJS Seminar “Does Japanese Society Remember Chinese Returnees?” 2021-04-08
• Tobunken-GJS Lecture Series “Japanese Studies in Asia” (2) 2021-04-08
• Tobunken-GJS Lecture Series “Japanese Studies in Asia” (1) 2021-03-29
• The 73th Tobunken-GJS Seminar “Kagawa Toyohiko: The Image and Reality of the “Gandhi of Japan”” 2021-03-02
• The 200th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “Justice and Selfish People” 2021-02-05
• The 199th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “Keijo Imperial University Faculty of Law and Letters Graduates and their Academic Contribution” 2021-02-01
• 2020 Four-Associated-Institutes Symposium “Disaster in Asia” 2021-01-12
• The 198th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “COVID-19 and International Politics” 2021-01-08
• The 72th Tobunken-GJS Seminar “The Collaboration Events between the Literary Museum and Bungo Stray Dogs: The Aspect from the Literature Promotion” 2020-12-28
• The 71th Tobunken-GJS Seminar “Japan-Thai Collaboration for Addressing the Challenges of Ageing Society: The Dynamics of Policy Transfer” 2020-11-30
• The 197th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “A Story from Palestinian Memoirs: the Man who Involved in Contract Negotiation with the Japanese Company” 2020-10-29
• The 196th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “History of costume culture exchange between modern Japan and China” 2020-10-29
• The 70th Tobunken-GJS Seminar “Rockets to Berlin: Aeronautical Futurism in Japan, 1900–1939” 2020-10-21
• The 69th Tobunken-GJS Seminar “Producing Bifurcated Multidimensional Images of Japan: Negotiating the State, the Market, and the Profession at Liberal-oriented Chinese Commercial Newspapers 2009-2015” 2020-09-29
• Tobunken-UT-IPI Symposium “Tips for Publishing English Books” 2020-09-25
• Tobunken-GJS Symposium “Tokyo School Symposium : Tokyo School and Japanese Classics: On The Tale of Genji” 2020-09-15
• Tobunken-GJS Workshop “Tokyo School Workshop : Tokyo School in Sociology” 2020-09-08
• An Intimate Journey ―Finding Myself Amongst the Sama-Bajau― 2020-07-31
• Tobunken-GJS Workshop “Tokyo School Workshop : Inclusion and Exclusion – Exploring Modern Knowledge Production at Tokyo (Imperial) University” 2020-07-01
• A Global History of Money 2020-06-22
• Tobunken-GJS Workshop 2020-06-19
• Tobunken Seminar “Opening Your Research to the World: Best Practices for Academic Translation and Publication” 2020-06-03
• The 68th Global Japan Studies Seminar “Book Review Session: On “Chinese Cuisine and Modern Japan” (2019)” 2020-05-28
• The 67th Global Japan Studies Seminar “Shuri Castle: Its Character and Significance from its 1992 Restoration to 2019 Destruction” 2020-05-23
• The latest issue of the International Journal of Asian Studies (Vol.17-1) is now available online. 2020-04-30
• Tobunken-Seminar “The legal validity of the monastic boundary (sīmā) of Balapiṭiya in 19th century Sri Lanka” 2020-01-21
• Tobunken-Seminar “Gaṇṭhipada commentaries in Pāli literature. What do we know about this class of commentaries?” 2020-01-21
• GJS Research Network has entered into a MoU with HKU and JAL 2020-01-16
• EAA Forum “On Secularism from Historical and Regional Perspectives” 2020-01-14
• The 195th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “1832-1836 / The Binary Opposition of the Metropolis: The Representation of Edo in *Edo Hanjōki*” 2020-01-10
• Tobunken-GJS Symposium “Tokyo School Symposium ―The Tokyo School : Its Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces (1)―” 2020-01-06
• Tobunken-GJS Seminar “Tokyo School Seminar : Tokyo School and Philosophy in France” 2020-01-06
• IASA/ EAA Seminar “The Writing of National History in the Early Period of Turkish Republic : Centering on Turkish History Thesis” 2019-12-12
• The 194th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “Anglo-Chinese College in Malacca: The Background and Reasons for Its Foundation” 2019-12-04
• A Publication from a Faculty Member Ryosuke Furui “Land and Society in Early South Asia : Easter India 400-1250 AD” (Routledge). 2019-12-04
• Land and Society in Early South Asia : Eastern India 400–1250 AD (Routledge) 2019-12-03
• Networking Asia (2019 Winter) 2019-12-03
• The 65th Global Japan Studies Seminar “Come for the Rugby, Stay for the Culture: The Rugby World Cup as a Catalyst for Atypical Tourists in Japan” 2019-11-25
• Tobunken-Seminar “A Historical Reading of the Ottoman-Turkish Open-Door Policy Towards Immigrants and Refugees” 2019-11-20
• The 64st Global Japan Studies Seminar “Tibetan Diaspora Politics in Japan” 2019-11-13
• Cambridge Open Access Celebrate OA Week with Cambridge University Press (Oct. 21-27, 2019) 2019-10-24
• The 63st Global Japan Studies Seminar “Watsuji Tetsurō’s Confucian Bonds” 2019-10-23
• The 62st Global Japan Studies Seminar “Milking the Empire: History and Culture of the Dairy Industry in Modern Japan” 2019-10-23
• Tokyo School Seminar “Traditional and Modern Buddhist Studies in East Asia” 2019-10-23
• Tobunken-Semina: Roundtable “Interpreting Interview Results of Second Generation of China Migrants in Sydney and Tokyo” 2019-09-30
• 2nd Tobunken Staff Seminar (Academic Year 2019) “The Problem of Politicized Philanthropy: The Marketing of Social Values since the 1970s” 2019-09-26
• Tobunken Seminar “Professor Sebastian Veg (EHESS) On Minjian: the Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals” 2019-09-24
• IJAS participates in Peer Review Week 2019 2019-09-19
• The 28th Global Japan Studies Lecture “Filling the “Spiritual Vacuum”: The Educational Legacy of Occupation Reforms in Japan” 2019-09-12
• The 61st Global Japan Studies Seminar “The Politics of Prison Religion in Modern Japan” 2019-09-12
• Tobunken Seminar “Illustrating Postsecular Images of Muslim Societies” 2019-08-21
• Tobunken Seminar “Rethinking Contemporary Islam” 2019-08-21
• A new issue of the International Journal of Asian Studies vol.16-2 was released. 2019-08-01
• Tobunken-ASNET Symposium”Ito International Research Centre Symposium『Crossing Boundaries: Migration, Mediation, Morality』” 2019-07-08
• Tobunken Seminar “COMPANY LAW TRANSPLANTS AND EVOLUTION IN COLONIAL SOUTHEAST ASIA (1st Asian Law and History Seminar)” 2019-07-02
• Tobunken-Seminar “CCP Influence Operations in Taiwan and Japan” 2019-06-21
• The 192th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “Oriental Culture College and International Sinology” 2019-06-14
• Global Japan Studies (GJS) Roundtable Workshop “A Roundtable Workshop on Prasenjit Duara’s The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and A Sustainable Future” 2019-06-07
• The 190th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “Islamic Law and the Liberation of Women Slaves in Iran” 2019-05-28
• The 191th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “Recruitment, Romanticism and Military Dress: Britain and the Bedouin in the interwar Middle East” 2019-05-28
• Tobunken-ASNET Symposium”Ito International Research Centre Symposium『Crossing Boundaries: Migration, Mediation, Morality』” 2019-05-23
• Networking Asia (2019 Spring) 2019-05-22
• Tobunken-Seminar “Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover: A Brief Survey of Select Vinaya Texts from Dunhuang(Shayne Clarke, McMaster University)” 2019-05-16
• Tobunken-Seminar “Stairway to Heaven and the Path to Buddhahood: Donors and their Aspirations at Ajanta (Dr. Vincent Tournier、EFEO (Paris))” 2019-05-16
• The 60th Tobunken-GJS Seminar “Murakami Naojirō: a global historian avant la letter?” 2019-05-10
• Symposium “Knowing Asia: Considering Syria through “Syrian Trilogy” of Short Films: With Filmmaker Ammar Al-Beik” 2019-05-07
• The 59th Tobunken-GJS Seminar “Imagining Japan’s Nuclear Future: Dreams, Visions, and Plans from the Era of High Growth” 2019-04-18
• RICAS Seminar “How are Indonesian Elite Students looking at China, Asia, and the World?” 2019-04-17
• A Maritime History of East Asia 2019-03-11
• The 6th Graduate Students Japan Studies Workshop jointly hosted by the University of Chicago and the University of Tokyo 2019-03-11
• The Third International Interdisciplinary Faculty Forum & Inaugural Graduate Seminar The University of Tokyo & The University of Chicago “The Energy Problem” (March 18-19, 2019) 2019-03-11
• The Global Japan Studies Summer Program 2019 : AN INQUIRY INTO JAPAN’S POSTWAR (July 1-11, 2019) 2019-02-28
• The 189th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “Building a living / Living a building: Crossing scales and modes of knowledge in the creation of the urban climate in Cairo” 2019-02-25
• Tobunken-GJS Workshop “Japanese Philosophy and the Philosophy at the University of Tokyo (The 3rd “Tokyo School” Workshop )” 2019-01-30
• Tobunken-GJS Workshop “Japanese Philosophy and the Philosophy at the University of Tokyo (The 3rd “Tokyo School” Workshop )” 2018-12-19
• Tobunken-GHC Seminar “1524：The End of the Silk Road” , a Lecture by Prof. R. Michael Feener (Chair Professor of Humanities at Peking University, China) 2018-12-17
• Tobunken-Seminar “Madinat al-Zahra (Córdoba, Spain): Recent discoveries in the caliphal city” 2018-12-11
• International Workshop” 201812/18 Transnational Advocacy for Equality in the Muslim Family: An Example of the “Musawah” Movement” 2018-12-04
• The 57th Tobunken-GJS Seminar “Impacts and Reverberations of LGBT Activism After the Great East Japan Earthquake” 2018-11-26
• The 186th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “The Transformation of Female Images in Early and Mid Ming Chinese Painting” 2018-11-13
• Tobunken Seminar/ASPS Gilas Seminar “Medieval Arabic and Persian Mirrors for Princes: Cultures of Political Advice in Islamicate Contexts” 2018-11-12
• The 56th Tobunken-GJS Seminar “The Emergence of Modern Humanitarian Activities: The Japanese Red Cross Society and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement” 2018-11-05
• Tobunken-ASNET workshop “Nonviolence as a Strategy, Nonviolence in the Future” 2018-10-30
• Tobunken Seminar “Relational Approaches to Turkish Politics (A “Relational Studies on Global Crises” Workshop)” 2018-10-30
• Tobunken Seminar “The Power of the Past: Heritage Politics in China (Professor Yujie Zhu，Australian National University)” 2018-10-22
• Networking Asia (2018 Autumn) 2018-10-19
• The 55th Tobunken-GJS Seminar “The Emergence of Modern Humanitarian Activities: The Japanese Red Cross Society and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement” 2018-10-16
• Tobunken Seminar “Internal and External Dangers in International Law” 2018-10-15
• Tobunken-GJS Workshop “Regarding Chinesee Philosophy” (The ‘Tokyo School’ project 2nd workshop) 2018-10-12
• Recruitment for Associate Professor (Academic Editor) 2018-09-23
• Tobunken-GJS Workshop “中国哲学をめぐって (The 2nd “Tokyo School” Workshop )” 2018-09-19
• Photo Exhibition & Workshop: Identities of Minority Muslims in the US and Japan (ASNET) 2018-09-05
• Tobunken-GHC Seminar “Muslim Perceptions of Pre-Islamic Pasts: Changing Perspectives on Heritage and History in Egypt and Indonesia” 2018-08-28
• The Global Japan Studies Summer Program 2018: AN INQUIRY INTO JAPAN’S POSTWAR 2018-08-20
• Tobunken-JATS Seminar (Lecture on the US-Taiwan-China Relations ): “The Big Picture: China Under Xi and What It Means for the U.S.-Taiwan-China Relations” is held 2018-07-30
• The 54th Tobunken-GJS Seminar “The Circulation of Institutional Knowledge between Japan and Europe: Example of Etō Shinpei’s Bakumatsu Writings” 2018-07-13
• Dr. Yoshinobu Shiba, Professor Emeritus of The University of Tokyo and former director of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, is going to be awarded the 2018 Tang Prize in Sinology 2018-07-12
• International Symposium on Halal Food 2018-07-10
• Young Researchers’ Workshop in 2018 2018-07-05
• 1st Tobunken Staff Seminar (Academic Year 2018) “Global history and area studies : mariage, divorce or illicite love ?” 2018-06-28
• 184Th Tobuken-ASNET Seminar “The Bureaucratization of Islamic Authority in Republican China” 2018-06-27
• TOBUNKEN Seminar and Japan Association for Taiwan Studies Seminar (Lecture on the US-Taiwan-China Relations )“The Big Picture: China Under Xi and What It Means for the US-Taiwan-China Relations.” 2018-06-26
• Tobunken-GJS Workshop “Conceptualizing Asia (Research Poject ‘Tokyo School’)” 2018-06-02
• Networking Asia (2018 Spring) 2018-05-25
• The 26th GJS Lecture “Individuality in Early Modern Japan” 2018-05-22
• The 27th GJS Lecture “Reconceptualizing “Dignity” from the Perspective of Watsuji Tetsuro” 2018-05-07
• The 51th GJS Seminar “Dancing Conflicts Away. Politics of Dance at the Congress of Vienna and the Rokumeikan” 2018-05-07
• Tobunken-Seminar “The Making of a Marjaʿ” 2018-04-20
• The 26th GJS Lecture “Individuality in Early Modern Japan” 2018-04-11
• The 50th Tobunken-GJS Seminar “Diversity, socioeconomics, and cultural trends in Japan today: Micro and macro perspectives” 2018-04-11
• Tobunken Seminar “Approaches to Arabic and Islamic Knowledge in the Early Modern Period: The Ottoman Empire and Europe Further West” 2018-03-15
• Tobunken-Seminar “Looking Beyond Flags: the 1940s in India” 2018-03-14
• Tobunken-Seminer “Is the “Li sao” 離騷 Actually One Poem? — Observations on Structure and Intertext (Professor Martin Kern, Princeton University)” 2018-03-07
• International Workshop “White Hijab movement in Iran and its gendered implications: A new relationship between Social Media and Social Movement” 2018-02-24
• The 25th Tobunken-GJS Lecture “Diversification and Convergence: The Development of locomotive technology in Meiji Japan” was held 2018-02-09
• Tobunken-Seminer: “The Political Crisis in Turkey and its Impact on Foreign Policy (Professor M. Hakan Yavuz , the University of Utah)” and a book talk on Turkey’s July 15th Coup: What happened and why? 2018-02-02
• The 48th Tobunken-GJS Seminar “;Japan’s Pacific Overtures, 1600-1625: Rethinking Tokugawa-Habsburg Relations” 2018-01-22
• Global Japan Studies Special Event “The University of Chicago & The University of Tokyo Joint Graduate Workshop and Faculty Roundtable” was held 2018-01-13
• The 48th Tobunken-GJS Seminar “Mutual Perceptions among the Chinese Character Cultural Sphere and the Sorai School” 2018-01-13
• Tobunken-Seminer: “Holy Groups” of the Zarafshan Valley in the Second Half of the 19th – Early 20th Century: Social Transformations 2017-12-25
• The 25th Tobunken-GJS Lecture “Diversification and Convergence: The Development of locomotive technology in Meiji Japan” 2017-12-25
• Tobunken-Seminar “A Supernatural Creature in a Transcultural and Transreligious Framework: The Case of the so-called ‘Sēnmurw’” 2017-12-21
• Global Japan Studies Special Event “The University of Chicago & The University of Tokyo Joint Graduate Workshop and Faculty Roundtable” 2017-12-12
• The 24th GJS Lecture “Small Voices, Screaming Bodies: Poetic Witnesses of the Showa Period” 2017-11-24
• Tobunken Seminar “Workshop: Bamboo Musical Instruments of the Northern Philippines” 2017-11-24
• The 47th GJS Seminar “The Tōshō Daigongen Engi and Iemitsu’s Sacralization of the Realm” 2017-11-15
• Tobunken-Seminar “Composite Texts, Repertoires, and the Question of Authorship in Early China (Professor Martin Kern, Princeton University)” 2017-11-02
• The 46th Tobunken-GJS Seminar “Rethinking Post-imperial Migration from the Japanese Empire: the Case of Repatriation from Sakhalin (Karafuto) to Hokkaido” 2017-11-01
• The 45th Tobunken-GJS Seminar “Back to the Future: The Untold Story of Mito Through the Dai Nihonshi” 2017-10-27
• 4th Tobunken Staff Seminar (Academic Year 2017) 2017-10-26
• The 44th Tobunken-GJS Seminar Purchasing Pleasure: Sex-Positive Industries and Feminism in Japan Today 2017-10-24
• Tobunken-Seminar/International Workshop “Law and equality in the Middle East from a gender perspective: a post-2011 view” 2017-10-19
• “Law and equality in the Middle East from a gender perspective: a post-2011 view” 2017-10-18
• 172Th Tobuken-ASNET Seminar “The Formation and Evolution of The Title “The Four Scholars of Wuzhong”” 2017-10-18
• Tobunken-Seminar “Can Northeast India Serve As A Bridge Between India And The ASEAN?” 2017-10-10
• The 43rd Tobunken-GJS Seminar “Geopolitics as s Traveling Theory: The Evolution of Geopolitical Imagination in Japan, 1925-1945” 2017-09-30
• NETWORKING ASIA 2017 Autumn 2017-09-27
• Associate Professor Yijiang Zhong Gave a Public Talk at Trinity College Dublin 2017-09-26
• Tobunken Seminar (in collaboration with TINDAS International Seminar) “Political Situations in South Asia” 2017-09-22
• Tobunken-Seminar”All Refugees: Migration as Leaving and Coming Home”（Lecture and Discussion with Prof. Michael Lim Tan, DVM, Chancellor, University of the Philippines Diliman） 2017-09-19
• Tobunken-Seminar ”New Perspectives on Development and Its Impact on Rural Society of India” 2017-09-11
• RICAS Seminar “Dynamics of Image Creation on China in Comparative Perspectives” 2017-09-08
• Tobunken Workshop “Repositioning Japanese Political Thought” 2017-08-29
• Searching for the Means of Coexistence: From Experiences and Ideas Across the World 2017-08-22
• Tobunken Seminar “Entangled Pasts and Contested Futures: A Family History of the Rajas of Mahmudabad (Uttar Pradesh),” a lecture by Professor Mohammad Amir Ahmad Khan (Ashoka University, the Mahmudabad family) 2017-08-06
• Dr Aya Ikegame gave a lecture at the University of Delhi 2017-08-03
• The 23rd Tobunken-GJS Lecture “Earth Photography from HAMAYA Hiroshi to NAKAHIRA Takuma” was held 2017-07-26
• Tobunken-Seminar “Human occupations and dynamic of economical growth in the Bukhara oasis” 2017-07-26
• The 22nd Tobunken-GJS Lecture “The Japanese Studies in the Age of Globalization” was held 2017-07-26
• The Creation of the Human Development Approach 2017-07-24
• The release of TOBUNKEN (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia) original clear files 2017-07-24
• The 42th Tobunken-GJS Seminar “A Text as a Global Crossroads: Yamamura Saisuke’s Seiyō zakki (1801) and the Meme of a City on an Oxhide” 2017-07-04
• Tobuken Seminar “Japonya’da Sohbet-i Osmaniye-5” 2017-06-29
• Tobuken Seminar “ 【International Workshop】Producing Traditions, Knowledge and Identities: Muslim Intellectuals in the Contemporary World” 2017-06-28
• 170Th Tobuken-ASNET Special Seminar “Cultural Heritages in Sumer: the most ancient city Uruk and the others” 2017-06-22
• 169Th Tobuken-ASNET Special Seminar \”Reorienting the Dutch East India Company: Europeans as Inter-Asian Brokers in Jakarta and Nagasaki\” 2017-06-15
• The 40th GJS Seminar "Visualizing Hungry Ghosts in Heian Japan: *Gaki zōshi *as a Transcultural Adaptation of *Zhengfa nianchu jing*" 2017-06-13
• The 20th GJS Lecture was held “Repetition and Recovery: The Limits of Reason in Post 3.11 Japan” 2017-06-09
• The 41st GJS Seminar “‘A lame effort’?: Meiji Japan’s response to foreign fur animal hunters in the Kuril Islands” 2017-06-09
• 168th Tobuken-ASNET Seminar “Study on “Tong Si Tang Diary” collected in Seikado Bunko” 2017-06-01
• 167th Tobuken-ASNET Seminar “Journey of a Buddhist Play: The Reception History of Guiyuan jing on the Page and the Stage, 1650~1949” 2017-06-01
• The 21st GJS Lecture “The Origin and the End of Domain Currency in Early Modern Japan” 2017-05-29
• The 39th GJS Seminar “Confucianism and the Kyoto School: An East Asian Interpretation of the Kyoto School’s Political Philosophy” 2017-05-29
• The 22nd GJS Lecture “Japanese Studies in the Age of Globalization” 2017-05-29
• The 22th GJS Lecture "Earth Photography from HAMAYA Hiroshi to NAKAHIRA Takuma" 2017-05-23
• The 38th GJS Seminar “Racial Triangulation: Japan and the Cultural Politics of Hollywood\’s White and Black Buddy Film” 2017-05-23
• The 37th GJS Seminar “What Japanese Cinema Matters? Anime and Comedy in Spanish Film Criticism” 2017-05-16
• Tobunken Seminar/ International Workshop “Living Text: The Qur’an, Gender Justice, and Muslims Today” 2017-05-11
• The 36th GJS Seminar “After Empire Comes Home: Economic Experiences of Japanese Civilian Repatriates, 1945-56” 2017-05-02
• Tobunken-Seminar“UNC-Chapel Hill at Tobunken: Mini-Lectures by Carl W. Ernst and Cemil Aydin” 2017-04-26
• The 20th GJS Lecture “Repetition and Recovery: The Limits of Reason in Post 3.11 Japan” 2017-04-24
• NETWORKING ASIA 2017 Spring 2017-04-13
• The 166th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar "Australia Japan Strategic Partnership: A new Form of Security Cooperation" 2017-04-11
• The 35th GJS Seminar “Modernity and Historicity in the Thought of Maruyama Masao” 2017-04-06
• The 18th GJS Lecture (Co-organized by IASA and ASNET) “One More Defense of History: Confronting the Phenomenon of Mutual Aversion in East Asia and the Discourse of the Empire” 2017-03-30
• The 14th GJS Lecture Series “When Honesty Ceased to be the Best Policy: Foundation of Political Rhetoric of Meiji Japan” 2017-03-30
• International Workshop on “From Accumulation of Data to the Creation of Grounded Theories: Challenges of Sociological China Study” 2017-03-01
• The 19th GJS Lecture "Catching-up Modernity: Reflections in between the two academic communities" 2017-02-27
• International Workshop “Moments of Pleasure: Time, Ethics and Desire in Contemporary Egypt” 2017-02-22
• The 34th GJS Seminar “Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan” 2017-02-22
• The 33rd GJS Seminar(163rd Tobunken/ASNET Seminar)”Traveling Ethics Textbooks in East Asia (at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries)” 2017-02-22
• Workshop “Dynamics in Middle Eastern Societies during the Mongol Period” 2017-02-17
• The University of Tokyo-Global Japan Studies Summer Program 2017 2017-02-17
• Tobunken-Seminar “Painting and Photography in Foreigners’ Construction of an Image of Qing Dynasty Law” 2017-02-02
• The 32nd GJS Seminar “The process and factors for the domestic production of animation in Japan after World War II” 2017-02-01
• The 162th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar / The 32th GJS Seminar “Theorizing “Person” for Confucian Role Ethics: A Good Place to Start” 2017-01-24
• The 161th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “Can States Manage Political Conflicts Effectively? Reflections on the Experience of Mining Conflicts in the Philippines” 2017-01-24
• The 18th GJS Lecture "One More Defense of History: Confronting the Phenomenon of Mutual Aversion in East Asia and the Discourse of the Empire" 2017-01-23
• The 160th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “Rewriting History of Social Movement through Personal History:Formation of Postwar Okinawan Social Movement and Structural Changes of the Trans-Pacific Region” 2017-01-19
• Safeguarding indigenous tradition in the modernization process 2017-01-17
• The 158th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “China Demands Reparation for Shipping Losses from Japan after World War II” 2017-01-13
• Tobunken Semnar “The field of Global History in Germany – temporary fashion or lasting transformation of historiography?” 2017-01-11
• The 159th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “When Western International Law Came: The Sovereignty Dilemma of Tibet in the Doddery Chinese Empire” 2017-01-11
• The 157th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “Wine in Ancient West Asia: the urbanization viewed from drinking vessels” 2017-01-05
• 3rd Joint Conference between NTU and UTokyo “Overcoming Barriers, Creating Networks: In Search of Multicultural Coexistence in Globalizing Asia” 2016-12-27
• The 16th GJS Lecture Series “Kokoro: The heart of Japanese Creativity” was held 2016-12-02
• The 17th GJS Lecture Series “Countries for Commercial Relations: The Tokugawa Struggle to Control Chinese in Japan” was held 2016-12-02
• IASA Seminar “The first Japanese « embassy » to Europe, 1580’s-1590’s. An essay in early modern global history” 2016-12-01
• The 30th GJS Seminar “The Politics of Writing Taiwan\’s History Under Japanese Rule: Perspectives from the U.S., Taiwan, Japan, and China” 2016-11-29
• The 29th GJS Seminar(Komaba ASNET Seminar) “Choosing Illusion: Mediated Reality and the Spectacle of the Idol in Kōji Shiraishi\’s Shirome” 2016-11-29
• The 28th GJS Seminar “This Way: Kanō Jigorō and Japan\’s Elites” 2016-11-29
• The 156th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “Heguanzi and the Huang-lao school of the Warring States Period” 2016-11-29
• The 155th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “The United States and “White Mission”——Analysis on the Relations between the US, Japan and Taiwan in the Early after World War II” 2016-11-29
• TUTIA Seminar/Tobunken Seminar/The ASPS Gilas Seminar Series “Mowlana Rumi: A 13th-century Iranian Poet, Islamic Scholar, Theologian and Sufi Mystic” 2016-11-17
• The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of Izumo 2016-11-15
• The 28th GJS Seminar(155th Tobunken/ASNET Seminar) ““You are China’s Inukai Tsuyoshi, I am Japan’s Kang Youwei”: Revisiting the Potentials of Sino-Japanese Friendship in Late-Meiji Japan” 2016-11-14
• The 17th GJS Lecture “Countries for Commercial Relations: The Tokugawa Struggle to Control Chinese in Japan” 2016-11-14
• The 15th GJS Lecture Series “Shinto—A Religion of the Signifier?” was held 2016-11-09
• The 16th GJS Lecture “Kokoro: The Heart of Japanese Creativity” 2016-11-07
• The 153th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar / The 26th GJS Seminar “Transnational Communicative Networks in the Japan-Korea Solidarity Movement of the 1970s and 80s” 2016-11-02
• IASA Seminar “Anti-sacrifice: Blood Donation and the \’Philanthropic Share\'” 2016-11-02
• The 15th GJS Lecture “Shinto—A Religion of the Signifier?” 2016-10-31
• Symposium “The Relevance of Area Studies for the Sciences and Public Policy：Examples from Europe & Asia” 2016-10-28
• 152Th Tobuken-ASNET Seminar “Attempt of self-recovery observed in collaborative activities of local community：Response of “K-community”, Bhaktapur city after the 2015 Nepal earthquake” 2016-10-22
• The Third Graduate Workshop in Japanese Studies jointly organized by the University of Chicago and the University of Tokyo 2016-09-14
• The first interdisciplinary faculty workshop, “Frontier Science and Social Ethics,” jointly organized by the University of Chicago and the University of Tokyo 2016-09-14
• The First Joint Workshop between Durham University and the University of Tokyo 2016-09-14
• Tobunken-Seminar “Discussing Islam, Gender, and The Modern World With Prof. Tariq Ramadan” 2016-09-07
• The First Global Japan Studies Summer Program was convened 2016-09-07
• 149Th Tobuken-ASNET Seminar “Foreign Buddhist monks and state-protect Buddhism in Tang and Song China” 2016-07-22
• The 24rd GJS Seminar(146th Tobunken/ASNET Seminar) “Japanese responses to global higher education trends” 2016-07-11
• The 13th GJS Lecture Series “The Nanban Sweets and the Trade – from the view of global history” 2016-07-11
• The 25rd GJS Seminar(147th Tobunken/ASNET Seminar) “Women as Healers in Early Modern Japan” 2016-07-11
• Confucianism, A Habit of the Heart: Bellah, Civil Religion, and East Asia 2016-07-05
• Chinese Thought as Global Theory : Diversifying Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences and Humanities 2016-07-04
• 148Th Tobuken-ASNET Seminar "Utilizing Narrative Elements from a Normative Textual Tradition to Develop an Anthropology of the Ascetic Practice in the Earliest Indian Buddhist Monastery" 2016-07-04
• The 12th GJS Lecture “Explaining Japan\’s 50-year Failure to Exploit Its Vast Geothermal Energy Resources” 2016-06-22
• The 13th GJS Lecture “The Nanban Sweets and the Trade -from the view of global history- “ 2016-06-22
• The 22nd GJS Seminar (143rd Tobunken/ASNET Seminar) “Kurahara Korehito and Naturalism: Representing Human Nature in the 1920s” 2016-06-13
• Tobunken-Seminar “Why do we learn Chinese traditional legal philosophy?” 2016-06-12
• CALL FOR APPLICATION for UTokyo Regular Students 2016-06-07
• CALL FOR APPLICATION for USTEP Students 2016-06-07
• 141Th Tobuken-ASNET Seminar “Classification of the Indus Type Seals in Light of Their Carving Techniques and its Significance: Archaeological Consideration through SEM and 3D (PEAKIT) Analyses” 2016-06-03
• The 23rd GJS Seminar(145th Tobunken/ASNET Seminar) “Warriors on the Jeweled Pagoda：The Application of Nichiren’s Great Mandala in the Decoration of Japanese Arms and Armor” 2016-06-01
• The 21st GJS Seminar(142nd Tobunken/ASNET Seminar) “Conflict in the Process of Creating“Kokuseki (Nationality)”in Manchukuo：The Concept of Japanese“Nation” Confronting Territorial Communities” 2016-06-01
• 140Th Tobuken-ASNET Seminar “Letting resource go: Re-evaluation of “Rural Development” “ 2016-05-30
• The 12th GJS Lecture “Explaining Japan\’s 50-year Failure to Exploit Its Vast Geothermal Energy Resources” 2016-05-23
• 139Th Tobuken-ASNET Seminar “‘Fu’ (pawn, steps, walk): Claiming literacy, Fighting against Buraku discrimination” 2016-05-06
• 138Th Tobuken-ASNET Seminar “Wang Wei’s Collection of Wang Chuan and Southern Literary Traditions” 2016-05-06
• China Grain Data Assembly 2016-04-13
• 11th GJS Lecture Serie “True Words, True Sounds: Towards a Discontinuous Epistemology in Japanese History” 2016-04-07
• The 20th GJS Seminar “Imperial Ethos, Colonial Pathos: Affective Realism and the Limits of the Transcolonial Film Coproduction” 2016-03-26
• The 19th GJS Seminar “An Investigation of the Edo-Meiji Transition through the lens of the Ryukyuan Embassies to Japan” 2016-03-26
• 137Th Tobuken-ASNET Seminar “The Analogy between Flower and Virtue in Dream of the Red Chamber: in the Case of Lin Daiyu and the Cottonrose Hibiscus” 2016-03-10
• The 11th GJS Lecture “True Words, True Sounds:Towards a Discontinuous Epistemology in Japanese History” 2016-02-29
• The 18th GJS Seminar “Narrating Disaster and Memoryscapes in The Tale of the Heike: Mediating the Great Fire of Angen (1177)” 2016-02-15
• Visting Professor Ines G. ZUPANOV, “Religious Plurality? Portuguese Discovery of the Antique Indian Christian (16th c)” 2016-02-04
• 136Th Tobuken-ASNET Seminar “The Transmission and Transformation of forms: Focusing on the Flower and Insect Paintings of Piling School in Joseon Dynasty” 2016-01-26
• Tobunken-Seminar “The Problem of Evidence in Historical Research” 2016-01-25
• Tobunken-Seminar “Religion, Asianism and the “Yellow Peril”: The Creation of Islam in Japan in the Early 20th Century” 2016-01-19
• The 11th GJS Lecture Series (The 8th Yamakawa Kenjiro Memorial Lecture) “Meiji, Media, Modernity” 2016-01-13
• 134th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “Returning to Hometowns Affected by the Nuclear Disaster and it’s Reality: Results of Analyzing Living Organizations” 2016-01-12
• 135th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “To Dress or Not to Dress: Body Representations on China\’s Southwestern Frontiers” 2016-01-12
• 17th GJS Seminar Series “Nature as Symbol of Japan: The Meiji Kachoga of Taki Katei” 2016-01-05
• Tobunken Symposium and the First ASPS Gilas Seminar “In Quest of a Proper Polity: Political Discourses in the Early Abbasid Period” 2015-12-11
• The 1st Roundtable of Bridging Anthropology and Linguistics “Approaching Mediatised Language and Gender in Japan” 2015-12-05
• 10th GJS Lecture Series “The Infrastructure of the Gods: Izumo in Prehistory” 2015-11-30
• 15th GJS Seminar Series (132th Tobunken/ASNET Seminar) “Genealogy of Kyo-Jitsu: Bungaku under Construction in Meiji Japan” 2015-11-19
• 14th GJS Seminar Series (131th Tobunken/ASNET Seminar) “The Multiple Faces of the Early Modern in 20th Century Japan” 2015-11-19
• 16th GJS Seminar Series (133th Tobunken/ASNET Seminar) “Mobilizing Taiwanese Subjects in Japan\’s Southern Military Advance, 1937–1945” 2015-11-19
• Tobunken-Symposium “Ulama and Islamists: Reflections on the Boundaries Between Two Identities” 2015-11-05
• 10th GJS Lecture Series “The Infrastructure of the Gods: Izumo in Prehistory” 2015-11-02
• 13th GJS Seminar Series (129th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar) “Managing Turbulent Seas: Japan\’s 1917 Wartime Shipping Control Order” 2015-11-02
• 128th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “Textual Origins of the Order of Posthumous Names in Ancient China: How a Historical Commentary Became a Ritual Manual” 2015-10-30
• GHC Scholarship 2016 for Graduate Students (Deadline: Sunday, November 30, 2015) 2015-10-22
• Summer School 2016 in Princeton (Deadline: Sunday, November 29, 2015) 2015-10-22
• The 2nd Japan Studies at the University of Chicago and the University of Tokyo was held 2015-10-21
• GJS Lecture Series 9th “Area and the Regime of Separation: For the Japanese Studies to Come” 2015-10-20
• 127th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar "A Construction of Scholarly Network as a means for Preventing Disappearance of a Research Field" 2015-10-15
• 126th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “Flying with Madame Butterfly: Japan Airlines’ Kimono-Branding in the 1950s” 2015-10-09
• GJS Lecture Series 9th “Area and the Regime of Separation: For the Japanese Studies to Come” 2015-10-01
• 125th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “Visiting Catholic Churches in Bangkok” 2015-09-24
• IASA cosponsored Summer Workshop　“Studies of Asian Arts, Religion, and History”　was held successfully in Fudan University, June 23 – July 3, 2015 2015-09-02
• Tobunken-Seminar "The application of International Jaw in late Qing Dynasty:Preventing Japanese Buddhist Missionaries from Propagation" 2015-08-22
• Tobunken-Seminar “How to describe Chinese Administrative Law as a system under the Principle of Gesetzmaessigkeit der Verwaltung or Rule of Law in Administration” 2015-08-22
• 124th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “The Application of Treaties in Late Qing: Focusing on the Prohibition of the Preaching Right of Japanese Monks” 2015-07-02
• Birgit Tremml-Werner “Spain, China and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644. Local Comparisons and Global Connections” is published 2015-06-29
• 122th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “Living with the Divine Names: The Diversities of the Interpretation of the Qurʾan” 2015-06-24
• 122th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar “The Chinese Archaeology and the Chinese Classical Books: The Case of the Department of the Archaeology in the University of Tokyo” 2015-06-24
• GJS Seminar Series 12th / 121th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar "Acting Like a State: The Politics of Foreign Labor Admission in Japan and Taiwan" 2015-06-16
• 120th Tobunken-Asnet Seminar “Publication of the sequels of Jin Gu Qi Guan：Focusing on the Version Collected in Soukoudou Library of Tobunken” 2015-06-15
• Prize of “ Livre de l’Académie d’Architecture” for Vocabulaire de la spatialité japonaise（CNRS Editions） 2015-06-15
• Tobunken-Seminar “The Application of International Law in late Qing Dynasty:Preventing Japanese Buddhist Missionaries from propagation” 2015-05-12
• Tobunken-Seminar “How to describe Chinese Administrative Law as a system uender the Principle of Gesetzmaessigkeit der Verwaltung　or Rule of Lan in Administration “ 2015-05-12
• Tobunken-Seminar “Towards an Archaeology of Scholarship in Premodern Islam: Investigating the Working Method of Scholars” 2015-04-21
• Solidarity Economy and Social Business: New Models for a New Society 2015-04-18
• GJS Lecture Series “Flying with Madame Butterfly: Early Japan Airlines Advertising in the U.S. and Hong Kong” 2015-04-17
• Tobunken-Seminar :: “A call centre is like a free language course” – an analysis of language learning in a European and Asian call centre 2015-04-16
• Tobunken-Seminar “Whores, Housewives and Heavenly Bodies: Medieval Persian Sufi Women” 2015-03-15
• Tobunken-Seminar “Buddhist Monastic Policy in Pre-modern Tibet and its Relation to Social Justice” 2015-03-04
• Tobunken-Seminar “The Chinese Cult of the Horse King and its Indian Tantric Origins” 2015-03-04
• GJS Lecture Series “Network Asia Globalization and Regional Studies” 2015-02-11
• Tobunken-Seminar “Early Islamic Kings: When, Where and Why Did Kings First Appear in the Early Islamic World?” 2015-02-09
• GHC (Global History Collaborative) First Annual Summer School September 7-13, 2015 Outline 2014-12-25
• Tobunken Seminar “Garden Onstage: Gendered Spaces in Late-Ming Gardens and Their Representations in Chuanqi Drama” 2014-12-21
• 3rd Staff Seminar at Tobunken(IASA) 2014\’ 2014-12-15
• Tobunken Seminar “A Reconsideration about the Reasons for the Success of Opium in China in the XIXth Century” / Global History Collaborative, 2nd reseach seminar. 2014-12-14
• GJS Seminar “Ryūkyū Play-ing China against Japan: Paintings of Theatrical Diplomacy in the British Library” 2014-12-04
• GJS Seminar “Forbidden Enlightenment: Yi Kwangsu’s Mujŏng from a Trans-East Asian Comparative Perspective” 2014-12-04
• Tobunken-Seminar “serial seminar on gambling as a culture in China,esspecially in Guangdong” 2014-12-02
• Tobunken Seminar “A Reconsideration about the Reasons for the Success of Opium in China in the XIXth Century” / Global History Collaborative, 2nd reseach seminar. 2014-11-29
• The 107th Tobuken-Asnet Seminar “Ryūkyū Play-ing China against Japan: Paintings of Theatrical Diplomacy in the British Library” 2014-11-07
• The 106th Tobuken-Asnet Seminar “Invisible women: social relations and power in 18th century Canton” 2014-11-07
• The 105th Tobuken-Asnet Seminar “Encounter between Eastern and Western Ideas: Jesuit Missionaries in 18th-Century China” 2014-11-07
• The 104th Tobuken-Asnet Seminar “Studying Certain Areas or “the Area Studies” at the University of Tokyo” 2014-11-07
• The 103th Tobuken-Asnet Seminar “Quoting in Urdu: Bilingual conversation of Pakistani children in Japan” 2014-10-24
• Workshop on “Chile, Japan, and Asia” 2014-10-16
• Tobuken Seminar “Life in a 10th-century Egyptian Monastery and the Scribal Practices at the Monastery of St. John the Little” 2014-10-10
• GJS Lecture “The Role of Russian Literature in the Development of Modern Japanese Literature from the 1880's to1930's: Some Remarks on Its Peculiarities” 2014-10-06
• GJS Seminar "Yashiro’s Details and the Problem of Place in Art History" 2014-09-29
• Tobunken-Seminar ” Garments and Maoists in Nepal: The ethnic politics of class movement confronting market failure and national transition “ 2014-09-29
• Benjamin Elman “A Late Chosŏn Korean Polymath: Kim Chŏng-hŭi 金正喜 (1786-1856) and Qing Dynasty Qianlong –Jiaqing Era Scholarship (朝鲜鸿儒 — 金正喜與清朝乾嘉學術)” 2014-09-13
• Tobunken-Seminar “The State of Development Studies in the UK: Challenges and Opportunities for Development Researchers” 2014-09-09
• Tobunken-Seminar "Neoliberalism, Resource Governance and the Everyday Politics of Protests in the Philippines" 2014-09-01
• Tobuken Seminar “Life in a 10th-century Egyptian Monastery and the Scribal Practices at the Monastery of St. John the Little” 2014-08-29
• The 98th Tobuken-Asnet Seminar / what about “From 1 to 0? Data Preservation and Accessibility in the Age of Information Ubiquity” 2014-07-08
• The 97th Tobunken-ASNET seminar “The meaning of \’modernization\’ and its changes in Japan and China:On the perspective of global history” 2014-07-07
• Tobunken Seminar “Some of the New Indicators of the Second Constituent Assembly Election of 2013, and Future Consequences” 2014-07-03
• Tobunken Seminar “Research on Counterbalance of Two Elements: Legislation Model of Land Law in Variation Period of Tang and Song Dynasty” 2014-06-24
• Tobunken Seminar “The DAMIN program and the problem of gold and silver between USA, Europe and Asia (c.1860-1900) “ 2014-06-19
• The 96th Tobunken-ASNET seminar “The Peking Gazette and Its Foreign Readers: Focusing on the Great Famine in 1870s” 2014-06-19
• The 95th Tobunken-ASNET seminar “Situating Xinjiang Studies” 2014-06-19
• The 94th Tobunken-ASNET seminar “The Zen Practices of the Scholar-officials in Song Dynasty: Focusing on So-Syoku” 2014-05-29
• The 93th Tobunken-ASNET seminar “The compilation of hagiographies in fourteenth-century Coptic society” 2014-05-29
• Tobunken Seminar “Research on Counterbalance of Two Elements: Legislation Model of Land Law in Variation Period of Tang and Song Dynasty” 2014-05-28
• First GJS Lecture : Searching for "Universality" in Japanese History: Understanding Nationalism through the Concept of "Unforgettable Other" 2014-05-21
• The 91th Tobunken-ASNET seminar “A New History of Early Chinese Literati Painting” 2014-05-15
• Tobunken-Seminar : For dealing with “unofficially excavated materials” 2014-05-01
• The 90th Tobunken-ASNET seminar “A critical reflection on Ceramics Biennales in East Asia” 2014-04-30
• The 92th Tobunken-ASNET seminar “Play Deeply! How to Learn Merciful Bullfight as Regional Culture” 2014-04-30
• Tobunken Seminar (GHC: Global History Collaborative, 1st Seminar) “Encountering the \’Non-European\’ and Defining \’Europeanness” 2014-04-28
• The 89th Tobunken-ASNET seminar “Livelihood strategies of swiddeners in Borneo island” 2014-04-23
• The 88th Tobunken-ASNET seminar “Disputes and Solutions of Chinese Miao: Based on the Guizhou Experience in Miao Peaceful Coexistence” 2014-02-13
• International Workshop : “Understanding Cultural Diversity in Asia: Analysis of Second Wave of Asian Student Survey” 2014-02-12
• The 86th Tobunken-ASNET seminar “The Tension between Self-sufficiency and Integration in Cambodia’s Modern History” 2014-01-31
• Yoichi Isahaya (JSPS fellow) published his article on the latest issue of the SCIAMVS. 2014-01-22
• The 85th Tobunken-ASNET seminar “To Judge or Not to Judge: Ethnography of a District Court in Indonesia” 2014-01-20
• Yoichi Isahaya (JSPS fellow) made a presentation at a workshop held in Istanbul for 6-8 December, “Maragha and its Scholars: the Intellectual Culture of Medieval Maragha, ca. 1250-1550.” 2013-12-25
• International Workshop on “Middle Class and Social Change in Contemporary China” 2013-12-16
• The 81th Tobunken-ASNET seminar “The study of Shi Shuo Xin Yu Bu during the Edo period” 2013-11-01
• Translation, History and Arts: New Horizons in Asian Interdisciplinary Humanities Research 2013-10-16
• The 78th Tobunken-ASNET seminar “Ōtani Kōzui, John Lucian Savage and the Wartime Origins of the Three Gorges Dam” 2013-10-10
• The 76th Tobunken-ASNET seminar “Within a “Religious State”: Religion and Politics in Contemporary Egypt Understood through Veiling Cases” 2013-09-05
• Tobunken Symposium “Making a New Constitution and State-Religion Relations: The Case of Post-Revolutionary Egypt” 2013-08-14
• Tobunken Symposium “Beyond Established Categories in World Historical Studies” 2013-08-01
• Governance of Natural Resources: Uncovering the Social Purpose of Materials in Nature 2013-07-26
• Workshop ‘The Quality of Money’ (in École Normale Supérieure) 2013-07-23
• Tobunken Seminar (IASA Seminar) “Comparison between the Developments of Institution of Concealment in Chin Japan” 2013-07-17
• Tobunken Symposium “Beyond Established Categories in World Historical Studies” 2013-07-10
• 1st Staff Seminar at Tobunken(IASA) 2013\’ 2013-07-10
• Tobunken Seminar(IASA Seminar) “Origin and Research Review of the People’s Mediaton in the People’s Republic of China” 2013-07-02
• Tobunken Seminar( IASA Seminar) “Comparison between the Developments of Institution of Concealment in China and Japan” 2013-07-02
• The 75st Tobunken-ASNET seminar “Chinese in Indonesian Politics” 2013-06-26
• The 73st Tobunken-ASNET seminar “Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Identity in 16th Century:a Korean diarist\’s view of Hideyoshi\’s invasion” 2013-06-21
• Tobunken Seminar(IASA Seminar) “Regulation of Islam in Xinjiang,China” 2013-06-17
• The 69th Tobunken-ASNET seminar “Licklider\’s vision is nowdays …” 2013-05-17
• Tobunken Seminar(IASA Seminar) “Origin and Research Review of the People’s Mediaton in the People’s Republic of China” 2013-05-16
• Tobunken Seminar(IASA Seminar) “Regulation of Islam in Xinjiang,China” 2013-05-16
• The 68st Tobunken-ASNET seminar 「他力思想への視座～植木等のスーダラ節」 2013-05-15
• Tobunken Symposium “New Approaches to Islamic History, Theory and Practice: Graduate Workshop with Professor Michael A. Cook” 2013-04-30
• Tobunken Seminar “The Long-term Geopolitics of the Pre-modern Middle East” (Professor Michael A. Cook, Princeton University) 2013-04-24
• Tobunken Seminar "Progressive Teachings in the Pāli Nikāyas" 2013-03-12
• IOS- IASA 4thd Joint Workshop and AsiaBarometer Workshop 2013 2013-02-06
• The 63st Tobunken-ASNET seminar "The Institutionalization of the U.S.-Japan Alliance: Japan\’s Strategy and Policy" 2013-01-10
• Tobunken-Seminar “The PLA and Regional Security under the New Leadership” 2013-01-09
• The 62st Tobunken-ASNET seminar Muslims in China and Modernity in Eurasia: Finding a clue through the concept of “Hui” in the first half of the twentieth century 2012-11-28
• Tobunken-Seminar \”Visions of Muhammad in Bukhara and Tabaristan: Dreams and Their Uses in Persian Local Histories\” 2012-11-22
• Tobunken-Seminar “Fatwa in a Glance” 2012-11-21
• Tobunken Seminar “Re-entering the World? Rituals and Decisions to Leave the Sangha in Theravāda Communities” 2012-11-20
• The 61st Tobunken-ASNET seminar \”The Logic and the Categories of the Welfare State: Analyzing the support system for the relative care takers in Finland\” 2012-11-15
• The 60th Tobunken-ASNET seminar Beyond the \”Indian Ocean World\”?: A Suggestion for the Study on the Western Indian Ocean Region in the 19th Century 2012-11-08
• The 59th Tobunken-ASNET seminar (Special Lecture by Project Professor Charney) “Village warfare in the Burma Pacification Campaign” 2012-10-29
• The 4th Staff Seminar at IASA (Tobunken) “Morality and Religion in Modern and Contemporary East Asia” 2012-10-26
• The Rise of Asian Donors in Asia: Japan’s Impact on the Evolution of Emerging Donors 2012-10-19
• Tobunken Seminar “On the Problems Surrounding the Bhikṣuṇī Prātimokṣa Traditions Preserved in Tibetan: Pelliot tibétain 891 and 892 (*Ārya-sarvāstivādi-mūla-bhikṣuṇī-prātimokṣa-sūtra)” 2012-10-17
• The 58th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar 2012-10-08
• Tobunken Seminar “Religio-political crises and cultural creativity during the Later Middle Period of Islamic history” 2012-10-04
• The 57th Tobunken-ASNET Seminar 2012-10-04
• Tobunken Seminar “Rewriting the National Past: Germany and Japan after World War II” 2012-09-10
• The 3rd Staff Seminar “Space in Islamic Painting” 2012-09-05
• “Religio-political crises and cultural creativity during the Later Middle Period of Islamic history” （Lecture announcement） 2012-09-04
• Tobunken Seminar “The sources for utkrānti in Tantric Buddhism” 2012-08-29
• Tobunken Seminar “Abhidharma Works of the Yogācāras and Their Practical Uses” 2012-08-29
• REVISITING EAST ASIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY FROM A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE — A Two Day Conference at Yale University — 2012-07-25
• 2nd Staff Seminar “Migrants’ acculturation and welfare state” 2012-07-05